In California this week for a workshop at Nokia Design about location-based services. Today at lunch, I also gave a brownbag seminar about my approach to design/innovation projects. Here are the slides of the presentation: [slideshare id=11572970&doc=2011-nokiadesign-brownbag-120214154307-phpapp02]...
Interview (in French) at 36-15
No, it's not a minitel service, it's just called 36-15, and it's a cool new podcast in French about digital innovation by Laurent ("L'émission qui se demande si le 21e siècle est une bonne idée"). Last week, I've been interviewed on my book about failures and it's located there on the infosphere. ...
Devices showing their inner selves
I found this gem on the website of the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories: "Meggy Jr RGB is a new kit that we designed as a platform to develop handheld pixel games. It's based around a fully addressable 8x8 RGB LED matrix display, and features six big fat buttons for comfy game play. (...) A unique f...
One-eyed robot
Found in Hotel by Boichi, a Japanese manga that I only found in French. Why do I blog this? I like the way the one-eyed face has been turned into something more human-readable through basic pencil drawings. This may be the equivalent of the "Transmetropolitan" smiley face. ...
"it’s not the strangeness of the work as much as their thinking process that counts"
An interesting excerpt from the interaction12 day1 report by Johnny Holland about Antony Dunne's speech "Crafting Design Speculations": "One audience member did ask the obvious question: where is the role for such out there work in everyday interaction design? His answer was that these students com...
The non-adoption of location-tracking in the family
"A Case Study of Non-Adoption: The Values of Location Tracking in the Family" by Vasalou, Oostveen and Joinson is a paper that is going to be presented in a week or so at the CSCW 2012 conference. It deals with the use of location-tracking by parents to monitor where their children are when outdoor...
Madrigal on "QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of Advertising”
(several codes encountered in Madrid last week). Alexis Madrigal has a good piece in The Atlantic about QR codes, their proliferation in advertising and their low adoption rate by users. Some excerpts I enjoyed " This is a picture of a roller-skating horse named Jimmy. I think he is a great analogy...
Two workshops at Lift12: futurescaping and location-based games
Lift 12 is almost there... and I will co-organize two workshops there: 1. Game mechanics in location-based games, in collaboration with Mathieu Castelli (C4M): "Location-based games now exist for quite ten years. They have always been a creative platform to test innovative propositions (beyond gam...
Talk in Madrid about Smart Cities
Last week in Madrid, Fabien and I participated in a workshop at BBVA innovation about Smart Cities. Organized by Urbanscale (and more specifically by Jeff Kirsh, Adam Greenfield and Leah Meisterlin), it focused on opportunities to use networked data for the client. It basically followed up on the p...
Computing chic hiccups: the Prada store case
Back to failing technologies... this piece on CNN Money from 2004 gives an intriguing snapshot of the problems encountered by "users" of the Prada building designed by Rem Koolhaas. As described in this article, this cutting-edge architecture was supposed to "revolutionize the luxury experience" th...